Fastening device for cards, calendars, &amp;c.



J. P. BURKE.

FASTENING DEVICE FOR CARDS, CALENDARS, m. APPLICATION FILED AYPR.IIO. 1919.

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WITIVE E8 Arm/mars "UNITED STA ans PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES 1?. BURKE, OF STRUTHERS, OHIO.

FASTENING DEVICE FOR CARDS, CALENDARS, &o.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 13, 1920.

Application filed April 10, 1919. Serial No. 288,980.

' frames, or the like for display, exhibition or other purposes. The device of whatever character to be supported will be referred to hereinafter for convenience of description as a card.

Among the immediate objects of this invention is to provide a card holder or fastening device so constructed as to occupy a minimum amount of space in idle position and which in such position carries the pin or sharp pointed portion in shrouded or guarded position so that the devices may be handled in large quantities with absolute immunity. I

Another object of the invention is to provide a card fastening device having any suitable means for attachment to the card, but having specially designed fastening point with a cooperating finger piece through which the operator may easily insert the sharp point into the wall for reliable holding purposes.

With the foregoing and other objects in view the invention consists in the arrangement and combination of parts hereinafter described and claimed, and while the invention is not restricted to the exact details of construction disclosed or suggested herein, still for the purpose of illustrating a practical embodiment thereof reference is had to the accompanying drawings, in which like reference characters designate the same parts in the several views, and in which Figure 1 is a front elevation of one form of my device shown in operative position and holding a card against the wall.

Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same and indicating the wall or other support in vertical section on the line 22 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a plan view of the device in normal flat form.

Fig. it is a side or edge view of the same;

and

Figs. 5, 6 and 7 are detail views of modi fied forms of card attachment means for the lower ends of the fastening devices.

- Referring now more specifically to the drawings I show my improved fastening device as being formed as by stamping from a piece of sheet metal or the like and comprising a body 10 having at one end any suitable card securing means such as tongues '11 bendable around bending lines 11 for projection through slits 12in a card or the like and then bendable against the rear face of the card as indicated in dotted lines in Fig. 1. Obviously other forms of securing means may be substituted and for which I make no claim per se in this specificationl In Fig. 5 the card holding means comprises a tongue 11 foldable upward against the body of the device and having card gripping teeth 13 at its upper edge. In Fig. 6 the tongue 11 is struck outward from the body of the device leaving .a rimlet which together with the main portion of the body will lie fiat against the face of the card while the tongue being bent upward against the back of the card will make a rigid lock. In Fig. in Fig. 5, but has a smooth edge portion 15. These are only a few of many card holding means that might be employed.

16 indicates an integral extension on the upper end of the body 10 which will serve as a finger piece in the manipulation of the fastening device in the attachment to the wall or removal ofthe card therefrom. This finger piece may be perfectly flat or as indicated in Figs. 1 and 2 may have its point or tip somewhat rounded as shown at 16. In its normal form the finger piece constitutes a flat extension of the body 10 but may easily be bent into a right angle with the body around the horizontal bending line 17, which being the weakest'part of the body as will presently. appear, facilitates this bending action, although I prefer to score the metal as indicated at 17 slightly during the stamping action to facilitate the bending of the finger piece and so make a substantially square bend or corner.

In the stamping operation the triangular portion 18 of the metal is stamped out free from the body 10 along two longer sides 19 which constitute in geometrical language in 7 the tongue 11 is similar to that the form illustrated the two sides of an isosceles triangle whose base is the bending line 17 The metal 18 struck out from this tri-. angular opening of the body remains as an integral part of thefinger piece-and lies always substantially in the same plane thereof. This metal portion 18 is formed in any suitable inanner into a sharp pointed pin 20 shown in this instance as being twisted or otherwise formed with a spiral surface somewhat like a gimlet point and which when the finger piece and the point are bent into the position at right angles to the body 10 may be turned or otherwise forced readily into the wall 12 by grasping the finger piece, the card C in the meantime having been secured to the body 1.0. Obviously I do not propose to be limited to any specific formation'of the opening in the body 10 for the making of the pin nor to any particular finish of the surface of said pin. The form of the pin shown, however, is possessed of maximum.

strength and while it may easily be turned or screwed into the wall will hold most ef-.

ficiently therein in practice.

I claim:

1. The herein described card fastening device-comprising a body of flexible material, means to secure a card to the body, a finger piece integral with the body and bendable from the plane of the body in a position at an angle thereto, and a wall engaging member integral with the finger piece and movable therewith with respect to the body.

2. The herein described card holder comprising a body of flexible material, means to secure a card thereto, a finger piece formed integral with the body and bendable along a transverse line so as to occupy a position at an angle to the body, 'and wall engaging means formed integral with the finger piece and struck from the body inthe formation of the device, said wall engaging means lying always substantially in the same plane as the finger piece and being swung thereby into wall engaging position simultaneously with the bending of the finger piece from the plane of the body.

v3. In a card fastening device, the combination of a body of flexible material, means to secure a card thereto, the body having an opening formed therein, a finger piece having integral connection with the edge portions of the body and bendable into an angle with the body around a transverse bending li-neat'one end of the said opening, and a wall engaging memberconstituting an integral )art of the finger piece and formed from t e'material removed from the opening and bendable with the finger piece into wall engaging position.

111 a fastening device for cards, the combination of a body of flexible n'iaterial, card engaging means carried thereby, the body being provided with a central triangular opening the apex of which is directed toward the card engaging means, a finger piece constituting an extension of the body and bendable into a position at an angle thereto around a line constituting the base of said triangular opening, and a wall engaging point formed from the material struck from the triangular opening and constituting an integral. extension from the finger piece.

Ina device of the character set forth, the combination of a body of flexible mate rial, a finger piece connected to one end thereof and bendable around a weakened line into a position at right angles to the body, and a wall engaging pin carried by the finger piece and movable into wall engaging position simultaneously with the bending of the finger piece aforesaid, said pin being guarded by the body in normal inoperative position of the device.

6. In a card fastening device, the combination of a body of flexible material, a finger piece formed as an integral part thereof and bendable around a weakened line into a position at an angle thereto, said :bodyhaving formed along its longitudinal center a triangular opening, and a wall engaging point formed from the material removed from the I opening and having integral connection with the finger piece at the base of the triangular opening, the pin being formed with asharp point and reinforced shank due to the width of the base aforesaid, and having means on its surface to prevent accidental release of the device from the wall.

JAMES P. BURKE. 

